avalancha
Portuguese, noun/a.vaˈlɐ̃.ʃɐ/
avalancha is spelled A-V-A-L-A-N-C-H-A (9 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese, the 139,586th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avalancha is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alternative form of avalanche” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver avalanche”.
What does avalancha mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of avalanche
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ver avalanche
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of avalancha
- avalanchas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avalancha?
- Brazil /a.vaˈlɐ̃.ʃɐ/
- Portugal /ɐ.vɐˈlɐ̃.ʃɐ/
- Portugal /ɐ.bɐˈlɐ̃t.ʃɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is avalancha in Portuguese?
avalancha appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).